"The Common Benefits Clauses: An Alternative to the Liberal Tradition and a Tool for Working Against Neoliberalism," in American Political Thought: An Alternative View, edited by Alex Zamalin and Jonathan Keller, under contract and forthcoming from Routledge in February 2017.

"Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy," Political Theory, 42:4 (2014).

"The Housekeeper of Homelessness: The Democratic Ethos of Marilynne Robinson’s Novels and Essays," in A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson. Shannon Mariotti and Joseph Lane, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming Fall 2016).

“Melville and the Cadaverous Triumphs of Transcendentalism,” in A Political Companion to Melville. Jason Frank, ed.(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).

“Emerson’s Transcendental Gaze and the ‘Disagreeable Particulars’ of Slavery: Vision and the Costs of Idealism,” in A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk, eds. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky Press, 2011).

“Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation and the Psychic Economy,” TELOS, Special Issue: Adorno in America (Winter 2009).

An excerpt from Adorno and Democracy: The American Years, reprinted in“Die Dialektik der Aufklärung in Amerika,” under contract and forthcoming from Leipzig University Press in 2017.

REFERENCE WORKS

“Henry David Thoreau” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

“Ralph Waldo Emerson,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

BOOK REVIEWS

A review of Robyn Marasco's The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel, for Cambridge Review of International Affairs, forthcoming June 2016.

“Communicating to the Demos,” a review of Gerhard Schweppenhaüser’s Theodor W. Adorno: an introduction, translated by James Rolleston (Duke University Press, 2009), in Review of Politics, 72:3 (September 2010).

“Critique from the Margins: Adorno and the Politics of Withdrawal” in Political Theory, June 2008, Volume 36, No. 3

INVITED TALKS

I accepted an invitation to present a paper, drawing from my forthcoming book, at the Association for Adorno Studies conference, at the Université de Montréal, forthcoming in April 2016.

I accepted an invitation to present my current research on Marilynne Robinson, at Rollins College, on April 16th, 2013. My talk was part of a conceptual lecture series called "The Heist: Community, Identity, and Meaning in the New Millenium," sponsored by the African and African-American Studies program.

I accepted an invitation to present a paper drawing from my current book manuscript at the Fall Seminar of the Political Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. I presented an essay titled "Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy" on October 18th, 2012.

I accepted an invitation to chair a panel on Adorno at a graduate student conference, at the University of Chicago, titled “Exile on Main Street: Fascism, Emigration, and the European Imagination in America.” I also presented a paper titled “Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies, Immanent Critique, and Democratic Pedagogy” at the University of Chicago’s Social Theory Workshop. Both events took place on November 10-12, 2011.

I accepted an invitation to participate in the American Democracy Forum conference at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, on May 25, 2011. I presented a paper titled “Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies and Democratic Pedagogy”

CONFERENCES

Western Political Science Association conference, March 2016 – "The Dispossession of the Public and the Common Benefits Clauses of State Constitutions: Working Against Neoliberal Oligarchy in the U.S."

Western Political Science Association Conference, March 2012 – chair and discussant for panel Promise and Loss: Democratic Moments in American Political Life.

American Political Science Association Conference, September 2011 – “Bartleby and Transcendentalism,” for panel American Tragedy: The Political Thought of Herman Melville

Western Political Science Association, April 2011 – “Adorno on the Radio: The Countertendencies of American Democracy,” for panel on Adorno and Democracy: Complexity and Contradiction, Possibilities and Potential

Western Political Science Association, April 2011 – discussant for panel Beyond Deliberation? Justification, Rhetoric, and Political Communication.

American Political Science Association, September 2010 – “Emerson and the Struggle of Transcendental Idealism,” for panel on Political Reflection Through Extraordinary Experience

American Political Science Association, September 2010 – panel chair for The Problem of ‘The People’ in American Political Thought

American Political Science Association, September 2009 – “Emerson’s Transcendental America and the ‘Disagreeable Particulars’ of Slavery: Vision, Politics, and Idealism”

Western Political Science Association, March 2008 – “Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality: Adorno, America, and the Sickness of Health”

Western Political Science Association, March 2008 – panel chair and discussant for Affect and the Sentiments of Politics

Western Political Science Association, March 2007 – “Thoreau, Adorno, and the Critical Potential of Particularity.”

New York State Political Science Association, April 2005 “Huckleberrying Toward Democracy: Henry David Thoreau’s Alternative Political Space and Practices”

New York State Political Science Association, April 2005 panel chair for Political Theory: Challenges in the New Century

Cornell University Political Theory Workshop, May 2005 “Henry David Thoreau and the Problem of Alienation”

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Manuscript reviewer for Polity, June 2015.

Manuscript reviewer for University Press of Kentucky, February 2015.

Manuscript reviewer for Polity, May 2014.

Manuscript reviewer for University Press of Kentucky, March 2014.

Manuscript reviewer for The Journal of Politics, July 2013.

Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, May 2013.

Manuscript reviewer for Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, May 2013

Manuscript reviewer for University Press of Kentucky, February 2013.

Manuscript reviewer for Rowman and Littlefield, August 2012.

Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, May 2012.

Manuscript reviewer for Polity, January 2011

Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, September 2008 and May 2012

Western Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award Committee, March 2007.